[LEAPSECS] Coding this week, and a trick for timeouts over leap seconds.

[Gerard Ashton]

It would be OK if
  - the "heartbeats" occur much more frequently than 1 per second
- the 1 second without a heartbeat criteria is arbitrary, and causing
   a false alarm because the actual period without a heartbeat is,
   for example, 998 ms.

Gerard Ashton
On 10/1/2011 12:23 PM, Paul Sheer wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 09:32 -0400, Gerard Ashton wrote:

>> Perhaps one of the systems has, [...]

> Smearing/UTC-SLS doesn't cause the heartbeats to stop being sent for a

> full second. It will, at most cause the heartbeats to change by a few

> milliseconds - which doesn't break anything for this case. Isn't that

> the point of smearing?

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> -paul

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